On Saturday, February 23, 2002, at 07:20 PM, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> I try to make the apple stuff and the fink stuff work using typical > unix maneuvers. (e.g. making /usr/bin/emacs a symlink to /sw/bin/emacs > since the fink emacs works and the one from apple doesn't support X.) This is just a personal preference more than anything else, but I prefer not to muck around with changing file names in my system -- I think links have an appropriate use, but for something like this it's probably better to make an alias or a shell script that executes the desired program. IOW, add a line like "alias emacsx='/sw/bin/emacs'" to your .bashrc or equivalent for C shell (I forget). The reason I do this is because other scripts may need to call on a program and will need that specific one, not the fink version. Again, you might not find this useful, but it helps me keep things "cleaner". > Somehow I wound up with the perl code to > return the head part of an html docuemtn from the lwp library in > /usr/bin/head and lost the standard head command. Now I suspect that > this is my fault - though I've no idea how I could have done it. Changing your symlinks around is one way. :) Good luck, Erik _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
